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Movies and moreMon, 24 Jul 2017 15:42:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Hacksaw Ridge – review by Dunkirk – review – The Mongoosehttps://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/hacksaw-ridge-review/comment-page-1/#comment-729
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:42:12 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=6133#comment-729[…] violence, Dunkirk is largely bloodless) and easy jingoism of films like this year’s dire Hacksaw Ridge. Most war films profess an anti-war message while revelling in the slaughter. In Dunkirk Nolan […]
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Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:15:43 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=913#comment-728[…] years but his last feature – the tedious, bloated and seemingly endless sci-fi snoozefest Interstellar – was, without exaggeration, one of the worst films I’ve seen in a long time. So for […]
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Sun, 04 Jun 2017 20:16:16 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=7503#comment-589Great reviuw 🙂 I havent seen the red turtle yet XD but I was on a studio ghibli con museum in japan in 2016 before it was released and saw sketches and posters of the red turtle. Movie posters, models of a air ship from Nauuisca, a life size cat bus and other things from the ghibli universe 🙂 Ghibli movies are always great 😀
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Thu, 11 May 2017 22:46:10 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=7158#comment-545Excellent selection. Glad to see Tolkien amongst the chosen.
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Tue, 31 Jan 2017 02:46:45 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=6133#comment-447A very compelling watch. Nice review.
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Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:46:51 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=5159#comment-431[…] Train to Busan As horror films go, Train to Busan‘s got a killer high concept: zombies on a train. The passengers of a cross-country bullet train attempt to fend off an attack by bloodthirsty flesh-eaters; as one by one the carriages fall and the number of survivors dwindle, director Yeon Sang-Ho mercilessly ratchets up the stress levels, proving you wrong each time you think things can’t get worse. Train to Busan is horror film-making dialled up to 11: a startlingly energetic, visceral, adrenaline-pumping exercise in nerve-shredding tension. […]
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Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:46:49 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=4817#comment-430[…] Hell or High Water Calling to mind the Coen’s Tex-Mex masterpiece No Country For Old Men, Hell or High Water sees brothers Chris Pine and Ben Foster mounting a series of bank robberies in rural Texas, pursued by ageing lawmen Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham. More than just a heist film, Hell or High Water is a tale of post-recession America, its characters desperately attempting to scratch a living amidst shuttered businesses and foreclosed houses. The wryly-satirical script mostly steers clear of preachiness, and the superb performances from the four leads help craft Hell or High Water into an involving and effective drama. […]
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Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:46:47 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=4933#comment-429[…] Hunt for the Wilderpeople Increasingly celebrated Kiwi director Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople turned out to be a sleeper comedy hit, breaking records in New Zealand and earning critical acclaim worldwide. Julian Dennison and Sam Neill make a gloriously enjoyable odd-couple as a delinquent adolescent and his foster father who accidentally become the subject of a nation-wide manhunt. Off-beat, surprisingly poignant and often very funny, Hunt for the Wilderpeople is easily one of the most charming films of the year. […]
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Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:46:44 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=3008#comment-428[…] Spotlight The surprise but deserving winner of Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, Spotlight recounted the real-life investigation by the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative journalist team into rumours of child abuse by Boston Catholic priests. Directed in unflashy, even workmanlike style by Tom McCarthy Spotlight often has the feel of a TV movie, but in avoiding bombast and big-budget fripperies it keeps the focus purely on the superb ensemble cast and the dogged work of the investigators. A slow-burning ode to old-fashioned journalism, Spotlight is a fascinating exploration of abuse of power. […]
]]>Comment on The Revenant – review by The Best Films of 2016 – The Mongoosehttps://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/the-revenant/comment-page-1/#comment-427
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:46:39 +0000http://hugomongoose.wordpress.com/?p=2504#comment-427[…] The Revenant Watching The Revenant, loosely based on the true story of a 17th century trapper left for dead in the Rockies by his comrades after a bear attack, is something of an endurance test. The characters tend to get lost in its epic sweep, and proceedings do begin to drag by the end. But if it lacks much in the way of a beating heart it’s undeniably impressive film-making, with director Alejandro Iñárritu’s single-minded drive and Emmanuel Lubezki’s extraordinarily impressive cinematography producing scenes of grueling, visceral tension. […]
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